The Extragalactic Distance Scale (Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Series, Series Number 10) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521591643 ISBN 13: 9780521591645

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

The hottest debate in astronomy and cosmology today is the value of the Hubble Constant that fixes the size and age of the Universe. At a workshop at the Space Telescope Science Institute, experts from around the world presented the latest results from a plethora of techniques for determining the Hubble Constant. The value has always been controversial, but for the first time at this meeting experts' results agreed, to within twenty percent. The articles in this book provide a comprehensive account of the Hubble Constant debate with the latest results from gravitational lensing, supernovae and novae, the Tully-Fisher relation, the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, globular clusters, planetary nebulae, light echoes, and the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project. This timely volume will become a standard reference for graduate students and researchers in astronomy and cosmology.

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Book Description

The hottest debate in astronomy today is the value of the Hubble constant which fixes the size and age of the Universe. At a workshop at the Space Telescope Science Institute, experts from around the world presented the latest results from a plethora of techniques for determining the Hubble constant.Based on the meeting, this book presents twenty-three specially written review chapters. They provide a comprehensive account of the Hubble constant debate with the latest results from gravitational lensing, and the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, through to planetary nebulae and light echoes. This timely volume provides a standard reference for graduate students and researchers in astronomy and cosmology.

Review

'This well-produced book ... contains an important mid-term summary report on the Hubble Space Telescope Project on the EDS from Freedman, Madore and Kennicutt, and is essential research library literature.' Irish Astronomical Journal

' ... highly recommended.' Paul O'Brien The Observatory

'[covers] every aspect of this fascinating topic. The succession of 23 review articles expertly summarise the efforts of modern astronomy to measure the Hubble constant.' Astronomy Now

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521591643
• ISBN 13: 9780521591645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 337
• Editor: Livio Mario, Donahue Megan, Panagia Nino